Oliver Heaviside Quote

Theory always tends to become more abstract as it emerges successfully from the chaos of facts by processes of differentiation and elimination, whereby the essentials and their connections become recognized, while minor effects are seen to be secondary or unessential, and are ignored temporarily, to be explained by additional means.


In: J.W. Mellor, Higher Mathematics for Students of Chemistry and Physics (p. 370), Dover Publications. 1955


Theory always tends to become more abstract as it emerges successfully from the chaos of facts by processes of differentiation and elimination,...

Theory always tends to become more abstract as it emerges successfully from the chaos of facts by processes of differentiation and elimination,...

Theory always tends to become more abstract as it emerges successfully from the chaos of facts by processes of differentiation and elimination,...

Theory always tends to become more abstract as it emerges successfully from the chaos of facts by processes of differentiation and elimination,...